Welcome to another edition of Ad Age Sports Media Brief, a weekly roundup of news from every zone of the sports media spray chart, including the latest on broadcast/cable/streaming, sponsorships, endorsements, gambling and tech. They can Dish Network it out, but they can take it? In the latest pay-TV carriage kerfuffle, Dish Network and Sling TV on Thursday dropped Fox’s owned-and-operated broadcast stations in 17 media markets, a blackout that prevented tens of thousands of football fans in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Washington, D.C., Houston, San Francisco and Atlanta from watching the Eagles-Packers game. Those aforementioned cities represent nine of the nation’s 10 largest DMAs; Boston, whose local Fox affiliate is owned by Cox Media Group, was the only top 10 market to be spared the ravages of the Dish drop. As first reported by Sports Business Daily’s John Ourand, Dish also dropped the Fox cable nets FS1, FS2, Big Ten Network and Fox Deportes. While the prospect of losing even more subscribers led Dish rival DirecTV to come to heel in its recent carriage beef with CBS, Dish has never been one to back down from a scuffle—even if it means alienating hordes of NFL and college football fans. In a statement, Fox noted that “Dish/Sling is at it again, choosing to drop leading programming as a negotiating tactic regardless of the impact on its own customers.” Fox went on to claim that Dish decided to drop its networks “in an effort... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
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